Stepping Stone to Recovery

They provide inpatient residential, detox and telemedicine. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and Knoxville is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

They detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines and opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Louisville.

Louisville has 1 AA group, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

Yes, they treat 65 and over, which is less common than it should be and rarer still outside a city the size of Louisville.

They offer a program for adult women, which is worth confirming on the call rather than assuming. A named program and one with a place free this month are different things, and Louisville has 8 other centers to ask.

Most places run something for families, and the quality of it is one of the clearer differences between two centers. Where children are involved, some programs can keep a parent and child together and most cannot. If you are calling about someone else, say so at the start and the conversation will fit.

Someone will want to know how recently you used, because that decides whether detox comes first. Honest answers get a better recommendation, and understating the amount is the most common way people get sent to the wrong level of care. Ask what happens between the call and the first day, and who is responsible for each part.

It is treatment that includes a prescription, most often buprenorphine, naltrexone or methadone. Alcohol use disorder has prescribed options of its own, which is worth raising because the phrase is usually explained in terms of opioids. Ask what happens to the prescription on the day the program ends.